Hybrid or petrol?

[MsGinaLinetti]

I'm changing my car. Currently have a Honda CRV which I love and will keep for family trips but need something more fuel efficient for work (30 mile round trip on motorway and local driving to meetings).
I think I want a Toyota Yaris but can't decide if a hybrid or petroleum is the better option. Hate shopping hate choosing
thanks so much in advance

Hiya there's some views that hybrid is pointless - lugging a big battery plus a petrol engine around makes for a heavier car and worse fuel economy. It's worth digging a bit deeper - on the Honest John site and some relevant Reddit discussions for instance.
It's a headache having to decide what next-too much choice and no way of knowing if petrol cars will be phased out.
Good luck.

We're also looking for a new (second hand) car. Don't get a wet belt! I don't know much about hybrid but DH has been doing more research than me and leaning to petrol. No help I'm afraid, but also look up 'common problems with XYZ car' so you can see what issues you might get.

Petrol.

All really helpful thank you

I've got a hybrid Toyota Auris and we have a hybrid Toyota Rav4 and I love it. You will need to learn how to drive it and learn how to drive in EV mode. It's not the most fuel efficient on motorways but driving in town where most roads are now 20 miles is great as I mostly drive using the battery. I would recommend you test drive it and see how it feels because it took us a while tog et used to driving it efficiently.

I'm in exactly the same position with a petrol CRV which is thirsty. I thought about pex, but actually it's a lovely car and by the time I add £10k to £15k and cost up loss of interest and depreciation, keeping and using the CRV which only has 70k on it is a no brainer. It's a bloody nice car to drive.

Yes the CRV is great tbh

Avoid the following:

• Wet belt
• EcoBoost
• Any engine that has the power of a coffee machine and is boosted beyond tolerances by a turbo or super charger
• A poddler instead of a cruiser (need a cruiser if there are regular stints on the motorway)

My go-to advice is to get a diesel for the following reasons:

• Lower tax
• Diesel burns much more slowly than petrol
• Diesel combusts under it's own pressure and just needs a bit of heating to get going
• Much better in the colder months
• Much more torque

I’ve got a Toyota Corolla Hybrid (not plug-in). I’m regularly getting 70 to the gallon on long trips (200+ miles), local miles it’s in EV mode most of the time. Did a 120 mile round trip to Plymouth from Cornwall yesterday and used just under a quarter of a tank of petrol.

Sadly it’s got to go back at some point this year (company car), but company are now doing salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid cars, so I’ll take the car allowance and either get another of what I have, or an all electric car.

Great, thank you
although I do actually just want someone to choose 😂

Recently got a Toyota Yaris Cross, a self charging hybrid. No need to plug in. We get an average of 84 -103 mpg as the app tells us. Mainly about town driving, although we have done a few longer journeys. Watch out for the recent announcement in budget for additional taxes on electric or plug in hybrids. Will make a difference to finances.

Good point

I have a Nissan Juke Hybrid not a plug in, whilst it’s cheaper on fuel it’s a pain to drive, and in this cold weather the hybrid doesn’t kick in at all so I’m lugging a battery for no reason. Once the battery needs the regeneration it sounds horrendous like I’m in too low a gear. I’m going back to petrol, it’ll cost more but easier to drive and work whether it’s cold or not.

Having said all this, if there’s a better hybrid out there than the Nissan I’d go for it. When it works it really is so much cheaper to run.

Self charging hybrids are good for fuel efficiency, I find I get a lot more miles out of my tank than friends with a similar size car that is just petrol. Especially for motorway driving where I can put cruise control on and it will do a lot of miles on the electric

Surprising how many miles they do in electric on a motorway at a steady 75, only kicks the engine back in to charge the battery if you can keep at a constant speed.

Just out of interest is there a reason you didnt want to go full EV? We recently(ish) got a Tesla Model Y (Yes I know Elons a *)

I find that we are saving an absolute fortune in fuel costs and something like a VW ID3 or a Polestar 2 can be got for fairly cheap now. Im filling my vehicle with electricity for £4 and doing over 200 miles for that! Very few servicing costs!

Which of course is completely meaningless.

Why?

All I can say is you are very rude and my fuel lasts longer than in my previous car which is fine for me

we don’t have high school in the U.K.

Because different cars have different size fuel tanks. Unless you’re calculating brim-to-brim MPG then it’s meaningless. You could say, that with similar monthly usage your fuel costs decrease but that’s very approximate.

A tank of fuel in my diesel with 100 litre tank lasts longer than my petrol hatchback with a 50 litre tank but the devil is in the detail! They both return very similar MPG.

Totota hybrid engines are excellent IME. They have a 10 year warranty, 15 for the battery. We liked the first self-charging Corolla touring sport we got so much that now between the two of us and our 27yo dd we’ve got three off them! (And they’re made in the UK which is nice)

I’ve just got a self charging hybrid. I am getting 70mpg on local trips (London suburbs heavy traffic) a recent motorway / country road trip was about 57mpg. That’s the first long one I have done as only had a couple of weeks.

im really pleased with it - it’s a Honda Jazz advance sport. 85% of my driving is local so for me it will be great.

Honestly would you consider electric? They're pretty much the same price and so much better. If that's a hard no then do you prefer driving automatic or not? You can get automatic petrols but most are gears. Hybrids are all automatic.